US6293092B1 - NOx adsorber system regeneration fuel control - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to the control of an internal combustion engine and, more particularly, to the control of regeneration fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine during sequential regeneration events of a NOx adsorber to minimize engine emissions and maximize fuel economy.
- NOx adsorber which stores NOx emissions during fuel lean operations and allows release of the stored NOx during fuel rich conditions with conventional three-way catalysis to nitrogen and water.
- the adsorber has limited storage capacity and must be regenerated with a fuel rich reducing “pulse” as it nears capacity. It is desirable to control the efficiency of the regeneration event of the adsorber to provide optimum emission control and minimum fuel consumption.
- the present invention is directed to a method for controlling NOx emissions from engines operating with lean fuel-air mixtures.
- the invention features a method for controlling regeneration fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine operating with a lean fuel-air mixture to obtain regeneration of a NOx adsorber to provide optimum emissions control and minimum fuel consumption. More specifically, the method monitors the exhaust gases flowing out of the adsorber during each regeneration event to detect when the fuel-air mixture is within an excessively lean or rich range. When the sensed exhaust gases contain an excessively lean fuel-air mixture, fuel is increased to the engine. Fuel is decreased when the sensed exhaust gases contain an excessively rich fuel-air mixture. The fuel can be increased or decreased by adjusting the duration or fuel rate of the regeneration event.
- FIG. 1 is a general diagram of an engine and engine control hardware for carrying out this invention in accordance with the preferred embodiment
- FIGS. 2 and 3 are computer flow diagrams illustrating a flow of operations for carrying out a method of this invention using the hardware of FIG. 1;
- FIGS. 4A, 4 B and 4 C are graphs illustrating an output signal indicating the richness or leanness of the exhaust gases flowing out of the adsorber.
- an internal combustion engine 10 receives intake air through an intake 12 to an intake manifold 14 for distribution to engine cylinder intake air runners (not shown).
- Electronically-controlled fuel injectors 16 are disposed in the engine for metering fuel thereto for mixing with the intake air to form fuel-air mixtures. The mixtures are then burned in engine cylinders (not shown).
- Exhaust gases produced in the engine cylinder combustion process flow out of engine cylinders and through one or more exhaust gas conduits 18 .
- a catalytic device 20 is connected in each exhaust gas conduit 18 to treat or clean the exhaust gases. From the catalytic device 20 , the exhaust gases pass through a NOx adsorber 22 including two elements 24 .
- a sensor 26 is disposed within a tailpipe 28 for monitoring the concentration of available oxygen in the exhaust gases and providing an output voltage signal POSTO 2 which is received and analyzed by an engine controller 30 .
- the controller 30 determines whether the regeneration event of the adsorber 22 is operating at an optimum point where emissions and fuel consumption are minimal and, if it is not, the controller makes the necessary adjustments to the fuel supply.
- the function of the NOx adsorber 22 is to reduce engine produced NOx emissions when the engine 10 is fueled with a less than stoichiometric fuel rate, and allow the engine 10 to run lean and within acceptable emission levels.
- the adsorber 22 reduces NOx emissions by storing the NOx emissions for a limited time period of approximately 30 to 180 seconds.
- the stored NOx emissions are purged, when the adsorber 22 nears its storage capacity, by running the engine 10 fuel rich for approximately one to three seconds. This provides the necessary reductants in the form of HC and CO.
- the stored NOx emissions are released and chemically reduced to harmless nitrogen and water by conventional three-way catalysis within the NOx adsorber 22 .
- an additional three-way catalyst may be added downstream from the sensor 26 to further treat the outgoing exhaust gases.
- the senor 26 is a conventional oxygen sensor like sensors 32 commonly used before and after the catalytic devices 20 in the engine exhaust system. Sensor 26 is placed at the output of the adsorber 22 to produce the output voltage signal POSTO 2 indicating the richness or leanness of the fuel-air mixture. When too little reductant has been supplied to the adsorber 22 to adequately purge the stored NOx emissions, the oxygen sensor 26 will produce an output signal having a voltage below a predetermined low voltage level, indicating a lean or mostly lean condition during the regeneration event.
- the oxygen sensor 26 will produce an output signal having a voltage above a predetermined low voltage level, indicating an excessively rich condition during the regeneration event, thus indicating that HC and CO emissions are less than optimum and fuel is being wasted.
- the engine controller 30 receives the output voltage signal POSTO 2 from the sensor 26 and analyzes it to determine the status of the fuel-air mixture.
- the controller 30 may be a conventional microcontroller which includes such elements as a central processing unit CPU with an arithmetic logic unit ALU, read only memory ROM devices, random access memory RAM devices, input/output control circuitry I/O, and analog to digital conversion circuitry A/D.
- the controller 30 is activated upon manual application of ignition power to an engine by an engine operator. When activated, the controller 30 carries out a series of operations stored in an instruction-by-instruction format in ROM for providing engine control, diagnostic and maintenance operations.
- One such operation is a fuel control operation for generating and issuing to a fuel control module (not shown) a fuel command FUEL in the form of a pulse width corresponding to a desired fuel injector open time during which fuel is delivered to the cylinders for mixing with the intake air.
- the amount of the fuel supplied to the engine affects the efficiency of engine operation resulting from the regeneration event of the adsorber.
- the controller analyzes the output signal POSTO 2 and determines whether the exhaust gases contain a fuel-air mixture that is within a desired range or has reached an excessively lean or rich range. If fuel-air mixture is not within the desired range, the fuel command FUEL is modified to obtain the desired range.
- this procedure provides for fuel control to the adsorber during sequential regeneration events and lean burn engine operations to minimize emissions and fuel consumption. More specifically, such an operation is initiated at step 200 in FIG. 2 upon application of ignition power to a previously inactive controller by the engine operator and proceeds from step 200 to carry out general initialization operations at a next step 202 .
- Such initialization operations include setting pointers, flags, registers and RAM variables to their starting values. These starting values could be predetermined or learned and stored from previous operating regeneration events such that they can be used for the next regeneration event without having to relearn from a pre-established baseline.
- the engine is checked to see whether it is running and whether it is running lean in steps 204 and 206 . If the engine is not running lean, the operation is exited at a step 216 , but if it is running lean, then the operation proceeds to a step 208 where it is determined whether a regeneration event is active. If a regeneration event is taking place, then a regeneration flag is cleared at step 210 . The output voltage signal POSTO 2 is monitored and the peak voltage level of the signal is stored in RAM at steps 212 and 214 .
- the stored output signal POSTO 2 is analyzed by executing the operations in FIG. 3 . Such operations are initiated at step 300 upon determining that the regeneration flag has not been set, indicating that the stored output signal POSTO 2 has not been analyzed to determine the status of the fuel-air mixture of the exhaust gases.
- the regeneration flag is set at step 302 and the stored output signal is compared to a predetermined high voltage level at a step 304 . If the output signal is less than the high voltage level, the stored output signal is compared to a predetermined low voltage level at step 306 . If the stored output signal is greater than the predetermined low voltage level as shown in FIG. 4A, no adjustment is needed to the fuel supply and the operation is exited at a step 308 until the next regeneration event.
- step 304 if the stored output signal is greater than the predetermined high voltage level as shown in FIG. 4B, then the last regeneration event has used too much fuel and the fuel supply should be adjusted accordingly.
- the fuel supplied to the engine may be adjusted by altering the fuel rate or the duration of the regeneration event.
- steps 310 - 316 are executed.
- a present regeneration fuel rate is compared to a predetermined minimum fuel rate. If the present regeneration fuel rate is greater than the predetermined minimum fuel rate, then the next fuel rate is changed to a smaller fuel rate at a step 312 and the operation is exited at step 308 until the next regeneration event.
- step 310 if the present regeneration fuel rate is equal to or less than the predetermined minimum fuel rate, then further reductions in the regeneration fuel rate are not acceptable; however, the duration of the regeneration event may be adjusted to alter the fuel supply to the engine.
- the present duration of the regeneration event is compared to a predetermined minimum regeneration event duration at a step 314 . If the present duration is greater than the predetermined minimum duration, then the next regeneration event duration is reduced at a step 316 and the operation is exited at step 308 until the next regeneration event. If the present regeneration event duration is equal to or less than the minimum duration, no further adjustments to the regeneration fuel rate or duration are permitted and the operation is exited at step 308 until the next regeneration event.
- step 306 if the output signal POSTO 2 is less than the predetermined low voltage level as shown in FIG. 4C, the regeneration fuel being supplied to the engine is inadequate and must be adjusted accordingly.
- the operation proceeds to a step 318 where the present regeneration fuel rate is compared to a predetermined maximum fuel rate. If the present regeneration fuel rate is less than the predetermined maximum fuel rate, the regeneration fuel rate is increased at a step 320 and the operation is exited at step 308 . If the present regeneration fuel rate is greater than or equal to the maximum fuel rate, then further increase in the fuel rate is unacceptable; however, the duration of the regeneration event may be adjusted to supply more fuel to the engine.
- the present regeneration event duration is compared to a predetermined maximum regeneration event duration at a step 322 .
- next generation event duration is increased at a step 324 and the operation is exited at step 308 until the next regeneration event. If the present regeneration event duration is greater than or equal to the maximum regeneration event duration, then no further adjustments in regeneration fuel rate or duration are permitted. The operation is exited at step 308 until the next regeneration event.
- the method of the present invention provides an “adaptive” regeneration fuel control to optimize HC, CO and NOx conversion efficiency while minimizing fuel consumption. This method finds the best regeneration operating point while compensating for changes in the engine control system, fuel properties and catalyst activity.
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